- Submitted by
- Megan Kelly
- Observations date
- Saturday, December 31, 2016 at 00:07
- Location
- 49.443660° N 114.621560° W
- Reporting on
- Snow conditions
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Quick
Avalanche
Snowpack
Weather
Incident
Snow conditions
- Riding quality was:
- Good
- Snow conditions were:
- Powder
- We rode:
- Mellow slopes
- We stayed away from:
- Alpine slopes
- Convex slopes
- Steep slopes
Information
- The day was:
- Sunny
- Avalanche conditions
- Slab avalanches today or yesterday.
- 30cm + of new snow, or significant drifting, or rain in the last 48 hours.
Comments
The break from the storm allowed us to get some visibility into the alpine today. We got to check out the human triggered avalanche in Rainguage from Tuesday. The 30 cm of storm snow was already filling in the debris. Interestingly, on a similar South aspect we also noticed a natural avalanche that released on a persistent slab within the last 24 hrs (see photo). We suspect a failure in the storm snow from earlier this week that possibly stepped down to the weaker sugary snow below. This area is a weird combo of wind slabs and weak layers that always gives us the creeps.
